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Photograph 012817 Second World War, 1939-1945PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHING AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL. THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHEON AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL . THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.
PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHING AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL. THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

Mrs Elsie Curtin, wife of the Australian prime mnister, speaking at a luncheon after she launched the Indian Navy corvette HMIS Bengal at the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company.

SYDNEY, NSW. MRS R. G. MENZIES, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND LAUNCHING LADY, SPEAKING, SIR GEORGE DAVIS KT, CHAIRMAN OF DIRECTORS, COCKATOO DOCK AND ENGINEERING COY PTY LTD AND THE PRIME MINISTER, M

COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD, SYDNEY, NSW. 1940-02-10. THE PRIME MINISTER, MR R. G. MENZIES, SPEAKING AT THE LUNCHEON AFTER THE LAUNCHING OF THE SLOOP HMAS WARREGO (II). THOSE SEATED ARE: MRS R. G. MENZIE

SYDNEY, NSW. HMAS GOULBURN MOVING DOWN THE SLIPWAY AFTER MRS. J.G. CRACE, WIFE OF REAR ADMIRAL CRACE, PERFORMED THE LAUNCHING CEREMONY.

CANBERRA, A.C.T. 6 JULY 1945. A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD IN KING'S HALL, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA, FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN CURTIN, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA, WHO DIED ON 5 JULY 1945. SHOWN,
